Re: Finding all References to a Primary Key

[Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is has been discussed, but I tried to find the  
> answer in the archives and failed, so...
>
> How do I find all the rows in other tables that reference a specific  
> row in another table?  I'm only trying to find rows that are in  
> tables where there is a Foreign Key referencing the primary key of  
> the table in question.
>
> Example:
> Table People has a primary key of people_id
> There are say 20 tables that have foreign keys referencing  
> people.people_id
> How do I find all the rows in all of those 20 tables that reference  
> a particular person in the people table?

pg_catalog.pg_constraint has that info.

Erik Jones

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